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Show UPRISING" OF THE CHEYENNES. i . ' r&ople Wlio Hare Gam and Can Shoo't Arc Not Afraid of Them.. The people who live -in the FOwder river country are accustomed to the reports re-ports of Indian uprisings:. Tho scares have thedr beglnniugsin small events. The . 6ne;in. 1884 was started by two drunken cattlemen, who were-'sitting in a house when tkree Indians came riding- up the road on their ponies... One of thmr.wbo had been drinking more than was good for bim,mad&tt bet that he could raise the hat from the head of one of the approaching Indians with his rifle without scalping ' hirh. So he opened.fire, and bedid raise the lmlian'g hat, but$iehot a trilletoo low and creased, .his nsealp, not hurting 'him seriously, but storting the blood and making the Indians angry. Thej' rode away, and that night came Avith a band of their companions and burned the ranch houses down... The residents of that Bectiont orgTvnized a. posse of 200 or 300 and went after the Indians iin earnest, but the men -who fired the ranch were subsequently surrendered, Jand the affair quieted down without more bloodshed. The Cheyenne then had a little settlement set-tlement on Otter creek, at its confluence with tho Tongue river. Afterward a lot more of their tribesmen joined them, and thero a missdon was established for them, where tha'g'overnmentnow takes ?care of them. At that time they were1 not cared for at all, and their only means of living was by hunting and stealing. They were treacherous and undesirable as neighbors. Thfy would always look around when th?y made a jviirit to a ranchfrto see whether there was any cms around, and if there were not they would set upon the people S and rob them of 'everything they had -n broad daylight before their eyes. If they met a man on a horse on the ranch who was not armed they would set him afoot ou the spot ami take his horse and outfit along with them. They are the same Indians who took ! part in the raid in Nebraska and after- iward participated in tho Custer mas- 'sacrer The Cheyennes are not a particularly par-ticularly high class of Indian, though. -They are.-not especiaJly brave, and I 'never saw- one who was a good shot. They are rapidly diminishing in numbers. num-bers. The locality where they are now was once a line-hunting ground, but that day is gone. They are 1 ed by tho government and .'furnished with some of the comforts of civilization, but for the most part they retain their original customs from preference; They live in hoiees a part of the time, but eat on the ground when tables are furnished them, and in many other ways show reluctance . to enter into the spirit of the government in its efforts to civilize them.--Helena (.Mont.) Independent.' |